The essay starts with the observation that, despite the omnipresence of criticism, critical
practice is on a notoriously fluctuating ground. Even more the propagated lack of social
alternatives and a dominant cynical consciousness turns critique to a rather naive and dull business. Regarding organizational research, the perspectives of immanent criticism,
Foucault’s genealogy, and critique as world-disclosure are discussed to give the critical
practice sharper outlines. With world-disclosure devoted to the visualization of heterotopies,
that is of alternative forms of organization, a critical practice is suggested which undermines
the opposition between affirmation and permanent criticism, and thus contributes to a
revitalization of critique.